Of Bass

 

║10║

 

oncoming the mirror fluctuates physiognomy’s

radial alterations

            the

symptom of age’s vocal inability to

                                    rearrange years’ alphabetic terminology—

 

prior to my subjective standing                                   here

                                                                                    in the melody of my own meandering

                                                                                                face in the face of 5pm

                                                adult

                        definitional

temporal

(temporary)                                         reactionary rolling amid

wind of the bedroom’s

ascertaining

silence

                                    the open window fathom subject to the eye-fulcrum ability to

understand, in the dynamic of memory’s faculty of sight

the child

of my fractioned childhood

engages now

with the neoteric construction, rhythm, strum the humming

crow mimesis

 

 

║11║

 

of the land

palm-warm

                        angled halos

italicizing

            numerous aspectual reliance on

dawn of open-mouth morning, all

 

 

║12║

 

portrait in the pageantry of

tableau                         tandem access, hand/in-hand

                        delicate as

infant’s yawn

calibrating

moment this

adjective of serenading stillness

 

 

║13║

 

action

in the               essence of misused reflection

                        pluralized

plagiary

pulse the pulsating oscillating rhythm/s

again the multilingual

accentuated

                        italic (shape of a spark-twirl from the undulating tongue)

            undergoing

task

in the thinking disposition

claiming

                                                            as did Russell “many would sooner die than think”

horizontal resting

raised in from the sheet of a morning hour’s

streetlamp dissipation

 

 

║14║

 

clarity containing remnants

random acidities

alarm in the morning of gaping visual smear—

 

 

║15║

 

shaded, as with the lyrical momentum of nostalgia’s

ornamental

            formal attire

 

hands’ aluminum-shaped from the shifting composites of music’s

outward nuances, empyrean

 

 

Felino A. Soriano has authored 54 collections of poetry, including Quartet Dialogues (white sky ebooks, 2012) Of language|s| the rain speaks (quarter after press, 2012) and Of oscillating fathoms these nonverbal chants (Argotist Ebooks, 2012).   He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics  and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. For further information, please visit www.felinoasoriano.info.